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Issue: Amazing Adventures #6

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Publication Date: November 1961

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Issues: #6 of 6 Issues (8 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: 1961

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants2

Amazing Adventures #6 [U.S. Cover Price]

Amazing Adventures #6 [UK Cover Price]

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (5 total)

Sserpo, the Creature Who Crushed the World!!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Sserpo

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: V-337

Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Sserpo; Thomas Burke; Henry Burke; Anne Burke

First Line: Prologue: One rainy, wind-tossed night on the California coast a hundred years ago, a voice cried out in despair...

Synopsis: A growth serum is abandoned and eaten by a lizard, which grows big enough to menace the Earth. The world is only saved when a scientist, the great-grandson of the inventor of the serum, contacts aliens on Jupiter, who use their advanced technology to restore the creature to normal.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-337

Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Sserpo" (7 pp).

Muscle Man

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Jimmy Binn; Tooloo

First Line: It was a hot afternoon, this last one of Jimmy Binn's vacation.

Synopsis: An ordinary man envies body-builders on the beach, and a strange figure teaches him about the strength of his own mind.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-849

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

The Fourth Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Ben; Spade; Mr. White

First Line: Their names were Ben and Spade!

Synopsis: Two thugs attempt to mug a kindly old man in the park when a statue comes to his aid.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-339

Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Krogg!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]; Krogg

First Line: On a quiet corner in a small midwestern town there stands a new, private house...as yet unsold!

Synopsis: Dr. Droom investigates the disappearance of several houses, and finds that an alien disguised as a scientist is to blame.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-338

Notes: Doctor Droom next appears as Doctor Druid in the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #210 (April 1977), he had already been renamed in the reprints of these stories.